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Henry Pickering Bowditch (1840-1911)

Text from American Physiological Society

"Henry Pickering Bowditch was chosen the first President of APS at the organizational meeting in 1887. He served in 1888 and again from 1891 to 1895, a total of six years. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Bowditch studied physiology with Barnard in France and Ludwig in Germany. Appointed assistant professor of physiology at Harvard Medical School in 1871, he established the first university laboratory of experimental physiology in America. Several of the charter members of APS, among them F. W. Ellis, G. S. Hall, W.P. Lombard, C. S. Minot, I. Ott, and J. W. Warren, had worked with him in his laboratory. His research touched on a wide variety of subjects including the indefatigability of nerves, the function of cardiac muscle, ciliary motion, the knee-jerk response, and the growth of children."

Charles Sedgwick Minot (1852–1914) dedicated his 1903 textbook A Laboratory Text-Book Of Embryology to Bowditch.

Minot, C.S., (1903). A Laboratory Text-Book Of Embryology. Philadelphia:P. Blakiston's Son & Co.

Reference

Popular Science Monthly Volume 78 (1911) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PSM_V78_D628_Henry_Pickering_Bowditch.png Image has been altered in size, contrast and labelling.

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